Showing posts with label Surveys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surveys. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Improving Your Survey Response Rates

Photo: Hanna Fass
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Author:
Andrew W. Phillips, MD, MEd
Emergency Medicine Resident
Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency
Editor-in-chief, AAEM-RSA Blog

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You’re trying to improve your medical school classes, so what do you do? A survey!

You disliked an off-service rotation and wonder if your classmates had similar experiences. What do you do? A survey!

Surveys are ubiquitous now, and response rates to surveys of all types have been steadily decreasing across the US.[1] Why? Consider the last time you received a survey and immediately threw it away or deleted it, and you have your answer.